Burkina Faso's Lt Col Isaac Zida named prime minister

The authorities in Burkina Faso have appointed an army officer, Lt Col Isaac Zida, as transitional prime minister.

Col Zida had been among officers who took power when then President Blaise Compaore was forced to resign on 31 October during mass protests.

Lt Col Zida handed over as head of state to Michel Kafando on Monday

He declared himself head of state but on Tuesday oversaw the swearing-in of former Foreign Minister Michel Kafando as interim president.
The moves followed agreement on a year-long transition to elections.

The transitional charter will see an interim legislative chamber installed until elections are organised next year.
Mr Compaore first seized power in a coup in 1987 and went on to win four disputed elections.
Tens of thousands of people protested in Ouagadougou in October against moves to allow him to extend his rule.



Source:BBC

CAMEROOM TROOPS BETTER THAN THE NIGERIA SOLDIERS

Cameroon's military are battling cross-border raids by Nigeria's militant Islamist group Boko Haram, as the BBC's Thomas Fessy found out when he joined soldiers on a patrol.

A soldier is standing on the back of a flatbed pick-up truck leading the convoy.

B/Haram attacked  military post in the border village of Amchide

His high-powered twin-barrelled gun is turned towards Nigeria. In reality, though, the weapon is aimed at what Boko Haram call their "caliphate", or Islamic state.
The border village of Amchide is mostly deserted. Only a handful of people can be seen as we drive through.
They are hastily throwing a few belongings on a cart as they prepare to leave. They probably did not have time to take anything when they fled during an attack, and came back to recover their possessions.
The dusty road is the line that the militants keep crossing on almost a daily basis now, attacking the villages and Cameroonian army positions. 

Many of them walked long distances to escape Boko Haram
"Every day, there are gunshots," a Cameroonian commander says.
He explains that the situation is so tense that he would rather stay anonymous.
"They are there; they are turning, watching, trying to know what we are doing and how we can react. It's unpredictable. Boko Haram is like a ghost."

Thousands of Nigerians have fled to Cameroon

The strain is tangible. Cameroon's elite Rapid Intervention Battalion, commonly known by its French acronym BIR, has lost dozens of men since the beginning of the year in the fight against Boko Haram.
About 1,000 men from BIR, trained by US and Israeli forces, have been deployed along a 500-km (300- mile) stretch of porous border with Nigeria.
Boko Haram is advancing and Cameroon's military fight daily battles to keep the boundary with Nigeria - Africa's most populous state - intact.

Cameroon's military recently dispatched another 2,000 soldiers to the border region to reinforce troops.
Last month, Boko Haram attacked the military post at Amchide with a tank.

 

Cameroonian army officer

A car bomb exploded a few metres away minutes before the tank stormed the gate of the Cameroonian base. The tank's charred remains are still to be seen outside the military post.

Cameroonian soldiers complain that they have been left to fight a war which started in another country on their own. 

 

On the other side of the front line, the Nigerian army has fled.
"And the French, where are the French?" an army officer bitterly asks, referring to the French counter-terrorism force commanded from Ndjamena, the capital of Chad, only a few hundred kilometres to the north-east.


Source:BBCAfrica

Palestinians kill Israeli worshippers

Four Israelis have been killed and eight injured as two men armed with a pistol and meat cleavers attacked a West Jerusalem synagogue, police say. The attackers - Palestinians from East Jerusalem - were shot dead.

There have recently been several deadly attacks and clashes in Jerusalem, which has also seen heightened tension over a disputed holy site. 

Israel has vowed to respond "with a heavy hand" to the attack - the deadliest in Jerusalem in six years.

Israeli forces rushed to the scene of the attack,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed "incitement" by Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and said the international community had ignored their actions.
Hamas and Mr Abbas's Fatah party - rival Palestinian factions - agreed to form a unity government earlier this year, a move denounced at the time by Israel. 



Mr Abbas's office issued a statement saying: "The presidency condemns the attack on Jewish worshippers in their place of prayer and condemns the killing of civilians no matter who is doing it."
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, says it carried out the synagogue attack.Militants from the far-left-wing Palestinian nationalist group have been behind many previous attacks on Israelis. 

Hamas and another militant group, Islamic Jihad, praised the attack. Israel has designated both groups as terrorist organizations.

SOURCE:BBC

END GAME FOR SUICIDE BOMBER

A suspected male suicide bomber who was allegedly dressed with a bomb hidden under his cloth was apprehended and burnt alive some few minutes after 1pm this afternoon at the Gombe Line Park in Gombe state. Residents of the area said the man was preparing to blow himself up when he was spotted. The mob refused to hand him over to the police and immediately set him on fire.

WICKED BOKO HARAM ATTACKED SCHOOL KIDS

I guess their targets are now schools. A week after a suicide bomber killed about 49 students at Govt Science Secondary school in Yobe state, gunmen attacked Limawa primary and secondary schools, Minna, Niger state this morning at about 10.30am, injuring many students.
According to an eye witness, the attackers shot sporadically in the air before using their machetes to inflict injuries on some students. It is not yet clear if they killed anyone but several students have been rushed to the hospital.
The Niger state Police command spokesperson DSP Ibrahim Gambari, who confirmed the incident, said the police are there now and normalcy has since been returned to the area.

HUNTERS OR SOLDIERS..BOKO IS OUT OF MUBI

Latest reports informed that the Nigerian military has recaptured Mubi town in Adamawa State, northern Nigeria from the Boko Haram insurgents.

According to BBC report, the terrorists are currently fleeing from the Nigerian soldiers.
Also, a resident in Mubi confirmed the information to newsmen, saying that: “Earlier today, soldiers launched a fierce attack, which saw the Boko Haram militants retreating.
“They have chased them away, but I’m not sure how far they went‎. Right now, people are still afraid of returning to the town because of the shock of the capture.
“And some are afraid that Boko Haram may return, that’s why the news is not being celebrated‎.”
Though the official confirmation by the DHQ, in the person of Chris Olukolade, is still being expected as at the time of filing this report, a correspondent of the BBC in Nigeria, while commenting on the news, posted the tweets below on his account:


This is coming after it was reported some hours ago that hunters in Mubi were mobilising to retake the town after it was captured by Boko Haram.
According to reports, the courageous hunters killed about 80 Boko Haram members in Maiha Local Government Area of the state on November 13, 2014, Wednesday, in a bid to reclaim the local government headquarters from the insurgents.

Speaking with the newsmen, a resident of Maiha, who escaped to Yola, said that the local hunters, who mostly arm themselves with bows and arrows, decided to get mobilised and to fight the insurgents following the alleged killing of the soldiers on Monday.

It was gathered that thousands of local hunters across the state are also planning to join forces with the Nigerian troops to recapture some towns under terrorists’ control.
Mr. P. P. Elisha, a spokesperson of Adamawa State Governor Bala James Ngilari, said the state government is supporting the hunters by donating three Toyota Hilux trucks to the state hunters association to enable them join the fight against the terrorists.
“Some of them (Boko Haram) ran away through Askira Uba and others through Mubi South and the situation in Mubi now is quite different from what it used to be,” he told to the PremiumTimes reporter.
Residents report that the first success in the battle for Mubi came in the night hours. A vigilante group, known as Yan Tauri, conducted a raid on the captured town, killed many insurgents.
Governor Bala Ngilari’s statement praised the combined efforts of the Civilian JTF, the Sarkin Bakan Gombi and the military in liberation of Mubi.

GAYS/LESBIANS MAKING WAVES IN BOTSWANA

A Botswana gay and lesbian group, LEGABIBO, (short for Lesbians, Gays &Bisexuals of Botswana) has won a landmark legal case in the Botswana High Court and they can now be officially registered as a group.

 

The judge Terrence Rannowane, who ruled, said that the refusal of the government to register the group was unconstitutional. In his verdict,  he declared "It is also not a crime to be a homosexual."The verdict was passed yesterday Nov 14

                                                                          

Source:Lindaikeji